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23 JULY, 1890.
Your Committee approved of his proceedings and submit
same for confirmation by your Board.
(2) That your Medical Officer of Health brought up and read a
Report for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to
his Report Book.
That your Medical Officer reported as follows:
"During the fortnight ending July 5th, the number
"of Births was 166: the number of Deaths was 88; 66
"occurring in the Eastern district, 15 in the Western, and
"10 in the outlying Institutions, giving a death-rate
"equal to 19.6 per 1,000 per annum: that of the
"Metropolis being 16.7 for the same period."
and your Committee resolved to recommend—That the same
be received.
(3) That your Sanitary Inspectors brought up and read reports
for which your Committee beg to refer your Board to their
Report Books.
That having regard to such reports your Committee resolved
to recommend—That notices be served upon the owners of
the following houses and premises, requiring them to perform
the following works, viz.:
(a) Nos. 13, 21, 25, 33 to 43, 49, 51, 55, 57, 61, 63,
Turner Street; 5 to 13, 19 to 47, 51, 53, 2 to 62,
Dempsey Street; 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Steel's Lane; 9,
Johnson Street; and 127, Grafton Street—
To provide water-supply to the closets thereat.
(b) Nos. 19 and 44, Dempsey Street—
To provide new pans to the closets thereat.
(c) No. 19, Dempsey Street—
To cleanse and repair the closet thereat.
(d) No. 9, Johnson Street—
To abolish catch-pit in yard and provide proper trapped
gully thereat.
(e) No. 15, Turner Street—
To trap the drains and sinks thereat.
(f) Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Steel's Lane—
To pave the yards and provide receptacles for the use of
the tenants thereat.
(4) That your Committee having surveyed the following places
resolved to recommend—That the owner of the stables in the
rear of No. 23, White Horse Lane be required to pave and
drain such stables and yard, and to remove the dung pit to
some more suitable place.
(5) That the owner of the premises in the rear of Nos. 8 and 10,
White Horse Lane be required to immediately remove the
offensive accumulation of rags, and in default that proceedings
be taken against him.